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Krauthammer’s Take: Clinton E-mail Scandal ‘Is Completely Smothering Her Campaign’

https://youtube.com/watch?v=zF5QPj-c_h4

Charles Krauthammer pointed out that Hillary Clinton’s brazen defiance in the face of evidence that she lied is consistent with her history, but he also said that it is obscuring her message:

I think what’s striking about what came out today is the brazenness. I mean, everyone knows she lies. William Safire wrote 20 years ago that she was a congenital liar, so we’ve had 20 years of lies in the interim.

You remember that you said originally she did it for convenience and said it with a straight face; now it turns out that she had 13 devices. She didn’t want to carry two, but she actually had 13, many of which, I think most of which, in fact, are unaccounted for. But in the end, I think what’s going to hurt her — yes, it reinforces the idea of her being untrustworthy and living by a different set of rules — but that’s known, and I think it’s baked in. I think the effect of this is, that nothing can penetrate out of her campaign, into the general public about who she is, what she stands for, and what she would do as president. There’s no message. This is completely smothering her campaign.

Can anybody remember anything she has said or done in the last week or two or three since the convention that has been news other than some new leak, some drip, drip, drip, or some weak campaign response to yet another piece of news?

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